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One must make a distinction however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the autocrats among us can be “literalists of the imagination”—above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, imaginary gardens with real toads in them, shall we have it.

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Saturday, September 9, 2017

My Dearest Book, I Wrote You a Poem…

Greetings, dear Toads, and welcome to another Weekend
Mini-Challenge. Yesterday was International Literacy Day. I wish to mark the
occasion by writing a poem… to a book. Not a poem about a book. Not a book
review shaped as a poem.

This week, I invite you to write a new poem dedicated
to a novel or a poetry collection you love. You can use the poetic form
of your choice, but your entry should contain 131 words or fewer. Please share
the book title (some of us might want to read it).

In the poem, you can choose to tell your book anything you
like: how you feel about its words, or what reading its words has done to you
(for you), or how you miss it when you don’t read if for a while… The possibilities
are endless.

21 comments:

The side bar chat was not there for me this morning - couldn't log on ... I have a question for you bloggers who use Blogspot. I currently use Googles "blogger" smart phone app but it will no longer be available with the next iPhone update - and it bleeps me out of it all the time when I comment... I have been traveling a lot lately to visit children in various cities and I don't have a lap top. So that puts me behind in participating and commenting...

So my question is what phone app (if you use Blogspot for your blogging) do you have for your smart phone? I uploaded (downloaded?) don't know my terminology - one and it is SO complicated. So if you don't mind can you let me know if you have a blogspot smart phone app and which one? Thanks!

Thank you for this lovely prompt! Margaret, I use word press and I do not use my phone to post. I use a tablet most of the time but it is still set up for word press. I can post comments on Blogger as I have a google account. Maybe setting up a google account and using it will help you. I use my identity, Toni Spencer rather than other i.d.s on Blogger.

@Margaret, I don't use my smart phone for the internet, but travel with my iPad Mini. You can get the Blogger app from the app store. Also you can get a Google app for searching, plus my iPad came with Safari. You can put another browser on if you don't like Safari. With either Google or a browser, you can access your blog in the usual way, which gives you a few more options than the Blogger ap. I imagine all this would be equally possible on your smart phone.

ooops...help...posted a poem for another prompt...multiple windows open...not enough caffeine in brain....can someone remove as I can find the mr linky username/password.( and could you then email me those so I can access it for my next prompt please)

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